2022 South Dakota Power Outage Report

In 2022, the average South Dakota customer went without power for about 6.9 hours, the 13th worst of 51 states (US average 6.2 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

6.9

vs prior year

▲ 104%

vs 2021

Customer-hours out

3.2M

Peak customers out

50,827

across the state at once

EAGLE-I coverage

89%

of SD customers

Counties reporting

South Dakota year over year

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2022

Customer-hours without power across South Dakota; May was the worst.

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All 63 South Dakota counties, 2022

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.

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#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Perkins County	105.3	94K	890	890	112
2	Haakon County	57.1	78K	1,375	1,268	67
3	Deuel County	49.7	75K	1,505	1,505	119
4	Marshall County	45.6	114K	2,509	701	80
5	Jackson County	45.2	41K	915	739	41
6	Grant County	42.9	134K	3,124	1,495	71
7	McCook County	33.2	103K	3,102	1,889	97
8	Miner County	29.3	31K	1,069	904	49
9	Kingsbury County	29.1	75K	2,587	2,174	44
10	Hamlin County	25.0	55K	2,187	2,092	127
11	Sanborn County	23.5	34K	1,463	1,317	72
12	Hyde County	19.9	12K	615	615	13
13	Lake County	19.8	160K	8,064	3,402	169
14	Harding County	19.6	36K	1,828	1,101	95
15	Moody County	15.5	54K	3,517	1,528	182
16	Faulk County	15.2	18K	1,168	906	42
17	Jones County	13.5	9,421	697	224	54
18	Beadle County	13.2	129K	9,787	6,956	168
19	Hanson County	13.0	26K	1,960	1,477	64
20	Day County	11.5	47K	4,051	2,407	171
21	Turner County	11.2	56K	4,964	1,295	206
22	Clark County	10.8	17K	1,587	831	47
23	Roberts County	10.0	41K	4,096	1,086	64
24	Minnehaha County	9.8	905K	91,940	23,986	332
25	Brookings County	8.9	170K	19,030	3,433	162
26	Bon Homme County	8.6	25K	2,917	1,845	60
27	Brown County	5.5	106K	19,238	6,204	212
28	Aurora County	5.1	6,931	1,368	524	86
29	Butte County	4.7	22K	4,717	1,177	106
30	Hutchinson County	4.4	25K	5,650	2,702	181
31	Douglas County	4.1	7,213	1,745	661	31
32	Davison County	4.1	48K	11,593	6,327	169
33	Potter County	4.1	4,672	1,138	342	25
34	Lyman County	4.0	12K	2,969	426	85
35	Spink County	3.9	13K	3,353	731	66
36	Union County	3.5	12K	3,359	2,144	153
37	Meade County	3.5	50K	14,286	1,593	189
38	Custer County	3.4	15K	4,481	861	190
39	Lawrence County	3.0	46K	15,540	1,149	174
40	Brule County	2.7	7,796	2,837	2,088	84
41	Walworth County	2.6	6,215	2,370	2,021	36
42	McPherson County	2.5	3,095	1,223	629	18
43	Campbell County	2.4	1,398	576	297	11
44	Fall River County	2.2	8,804	4,055	506	131
45	Gregory County	2.0	5,475	2,673	300	3
46	Lincoln County	2.0	64K	31,561	3,986	236
47	Buffalo County	1.9	1,131	592	84	49
48	Pennington County	1.9	128K	68,130	2,445	352
49	Edmunds County	1.8	3,986	2,191	508	32
50	Oglala Lakota County	1.8	7,535	4,164	1,500	55
51	Hand County	1.7	3,479	1,991	388	17
52	Yankton County	1.6	19K	11,940	3,235	197
53	Jerauld County	1.2	1,258	1,049	57	53
54	Bennett County	1.2	850	715	100	1
55	Stanley County	1.1	2,697	2,520	239	59
56	Mellette County	1.0	971	957	22	13
57	Hughes County	1.0	14K	14,362	414	14
58	Corson County	0.8	1,534	1,975	141	7
59	Charles Mix County	0.8	3,765	4,915	796	50
60	Ziebach County	0.5	749	1,374	32	19
61	Tripp County	0.5	2,147	4,744	275	12
62	Codington County	0.5	11K	24,302	2,132	40
63	Clay County	0.1	823	8,444	71	14

Biggest South Dakota outages of 2022

Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

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#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	Minnehaha County, SD	July 5, 2022 02:00	August 25, 2022 19:00	51d 17h	23,986	193K
2	Minnehaha County, SD	May 12, 2022 13:15	June 27, 2022 06:00	45d 16h	16,409	511K
3	Beadle County, SD	May 12, 2022 22:15	May 15, 2022 16:45	2d 18h	6,956	54K
4	Davison County, SD	May 12, 2022 21:30	May 13, 2022 03:15	5h 45m	6,327	25K
5	Brown County, SD	July 3, 2022 09:15	July 3, 2022 16:45	7h 30m	6,204	33K
6	Davison County, SD	July 26, 2022 17:15	July 26, 2022 19:45	2h 30m	6,153	12K
7	Brown County, SD	July 6, 2022 18:45	July 6, 2022 22:30	3h 45m	5,328	12K
8	Minnehaha County, SD	November 8, 2022 14:45	November 30, 2022 20:15	22d 5h	5,171	13K
9	Beadle County, SD	July 5, 2022 18:00	July 8, 2022 02:30	2d 8h	5,082	59K
10	Lincoln County, SD	July 5, 2022 20:30	July 7, 2022 14:15	1d 17h	3,986	11K
11	Brookings County, SD	May 12, 2022 15:15	June 27, 2022 06:00	45d 14h	3,433	151K
12	Lake County, SD	May 12, 2022 16:15	June 27, 2022 06:00	45d 13h	3,402	149K
13	Yankton County, SD	March 5, 2022 23:00	March 6, 2022 01:00	2h	3,235	6,141
14	Lincoln County, SD	May 12, 2022 22:00	June 1, 2022 13:30	19d 15h	3,027	20K
15	Lincoln County, SD	October 7, 2022 16:00	October 14, 2022 20:30	7d 4h	2,984	3,584
16	Minnehaha County, SD	March 16, 2022 07:00	April 4, 2022 20:15	19d 13h	2,790	10K
17	Hutchinson County, SD	May 12, 2022 21:30	May 16, 2022 14:15	3d 16h	2,702	15K
18	Pennington County, SD	September 13, 2022 17:30	September 15, 2022 02:15	1d 8h	2,445	5,645
19	Minnehaha County, SD	April 21, 2022 13:45	April 27, 2022 00:15	5d 10h	2,427	5,455
20	Day County, SD	April 7, 2022 03:00	April 7, 2022 06:15	3h 15m	2,407	3,529
21	Day County, SD	December 14, 2022 08:15	December 15, 2022 21:15	1d 13h	2,317	6,018
22	Pennington County, SD	June 20, 2022 17:00	June 20, 2022 21:45	4h 45m	2,267	1,414
23	Kingsbury County, SD	May 12, 2022 22:30	May 17, 2022 00:30	4d 2h	2,174	64K
24	Union County, SD	July 23, 2022 15:00	July 23, 2022 18:15	3h 15m	2,144	3,024
25	Codington County, SD	May 12, 2022 23:15	May 13, 2022 07:15	8h	2,132	5,864

EAGLE-I tracked about 89% of South Dakota's electricity customers in 2022; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.

South Dakota by year:2025 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

Other states in 2022:ME FL WV NC VT AK MI VA

Part of the 2022 US Power Outage Report.

Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.